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' PACKAGE HOLDER. No. 267,303. Patented Nov. '7, 1882.

UNITE STATES ATENT OFFIQE.

GEORGE H. BENEDICT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PACKAGE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,303, dated November 7, 1882.

Application filed July 11, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. BENEDICT, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York city, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Package-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective packageholder which can be readily applied in a secure manner to packages of various shapes and sizes without knotting together the ends of the cord; andit consists in certain features hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective of a holder constructed in accordance with my invention applied to a package. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the handle, the hooks being shown in elevation; and Fig. 3is a detail representing one of the hooks, hereinafter described. Figs; 4 and 5 represent the holders connected to packages already tied.

Like letters refer to like parts in all the figures.

A represents the handle of the carrier, and at each end it is bored longitudinally a suitable distance and size for the reception of the screw-threaded or wire-cable shank c of a suspension spring-hook, O, the body 0 of which is bent at substantially a right angle to the shank, and is then recurved to form a loop, 0 and the end 0 is brought near or in contact with the body portion, as shown, so that the space between the end and the body portion is contracted, in order that the end portion shall act as a spring-retainer, as hereinafter described. As illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the hook O is constructed of twisted or cable wire, which not only gives a fanciful and tasty appearance to the holder, but provides cheaply a screw-threaded surface to the shank, whereby it can be readily and securely introduced and attached to the handle, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. The shank is the only part required to be screw threaded, and the body, loop, and

end portions may be made with smooth contour and the latter tapered, which construction permits of a higher finish, if desired.

A double (or it may be a single) cord, D, is used in connection with the handle and hooks,

in the manner shown clearly in Fig. 1, or it may be used to secure a package in any of the various ways common in devices of this character. In the present instance the cord is knotted at d, substantially at its mid-length, and is pressed, between the body and springend portions of the hook, into the loop 0 and is then passed around the package B and is again pressed into the loop, and from thence is carried to the companion-loop at the opposite end of the handle and sprung into the loop 0 thereof and passed around the package, and a second time into the loop of the hook. It now remains to secure the end of the cord. In this instance it is passed under the handle A and around the body portion of the hook, and is then pressed between the spring end and body thereof and passed around said spring end, and finally drawn snugly between said end and the body portion. It may be secured in various other evident ways. For example, it may be successively wound about the end portion of the hook and finally clamped between it and the body portion. It is thus seen that a double cord may be readily secured in position, so that heavy packages may be provided with a convenient handle. For light bulky packages the same cord may be used singly around each end of the package.

If it is desired to prevent the hooks from becoming unscrewed from the handle or having their body bent toward each other under heavy weights, they may be connected and kept apart by a brace placed between them and soldered or otherwise secured thereto, adjoining their loops 1 am awarethat some package-holders have been provided with a hollow handle through which passes a wire havingloops at each end, and that others have been made with a handle having split ends for the passage of the cord; but none of them show spring-hooks to receive and clamp the ends of the cord, nor similar screw-fastenings for the hooks.

My holder, being composed mainly of the handle A and spring-hooks O, can be connected with packages or parcels already tied, and to facilitate the introduction of the hooks under the tying-string the hook ends are turned at right angle to a plane passing through the axis of the handle, as shown in Fig. 4, or diag- IOO onally thereto, as shown in Fig. 5, and to keep l 2. The combination of the handle A, hooks 0, provided with screw-threaded shanks c and spring ends 0 with the cord D, substanthlly as and for the purpose described.

GEORGE E. BENEDICT.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. SMITH, Tnonms 1. BROWN. 

